Book Clubs Column by Julie Hale

Only 23 years old, Iweala writes with incredible authority about civil war and political upheaval as they sweep across a fictional nation in West Africa. Agu, the narrator of this debut novel, is a young boy when his father is murdered by guerillas, and his mother and sister disappear. The book follows his development from orphaned, innocent bystander into full-blooded killer. Desperate for...